A propos de Microsoft

(extrait de David S. Bennahum "Extra Life" Basic Books 1998, p. 227, où il évoque une visite au campus de Microsoft à Seattle)

"[It was] a place dedicated to fine-tuning the surface of software. With their perpetual upgrades, each existing as a stratum of opaque sediment, further hiding the machine, burying it in ossified layers, there was little incentive to break out in a new direction.They were a short term shop in a computer world where short - three months - seemed long to those mired in the latest code update. This was not evolution - it was fossilization".